Android Developer Preview 3 Arrives with Visual Improvements

Google has just released the third Developer Preview for Android O and it brings some improvements to stability and other areas. The new Android O developer preview includes some visual tweaks and new features.

Android O now comes with new and colorful notifications. The new layout allows notifications to change color if they contain embedded images and the background gradually fades into the picture. Moreover, the Android System now automatically displays a persistent notification, letting users know if an application is running in the background. Still, Google lets users disable the feature using the new notification channels.

Aside from this, Google introduced a new feature that allows users to change the shape of icons from cylinder to teardrop, square, rounded square, squircle or use system default. Google also removed customization options for themes on <a href="http://news.softpedia.c… (read more)